If Voyager-J becomes a larger part of the show would you want The Doctor to be involved?

You could have him be the version of the Doctor (identical in personality and experiences to the one from Voyager up until 2374) that was in the Kyrian Museum for 700+ years before finally leaving to trace Voyager's journey home to Earth in a shuttlecraft sometime many years after 3074 in the episode VOY: Living Witness.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Living_Witness_(episode)

Since he had already surpassed the year of The Burn in 3069 and has a long journey ahead of him by shuttlecraft, he could be arriving just in time to be a part of the new Voyager-J crew in 3189, and perhaps even be responsible for its namesake, as a means of reclaiming the good name of Voyager after he had spent so much time and effort in the Kyrian Museum correcting the record. He could also have brought renewed interest in Voyager to future Starfleet's attention.

Along his journey he might have settled down in a few places and required an aging program to blend in, which explains his change in appearance.

 

Personally, I'd love to see the Backup-EMH from "Living Witness" make his way to Federation space but keep the fate of the original EMH unclear.

 

Because

Spoiler: The Book of Boba Fett

An 80’s Luke Skywalker is now possible and convincing enough

a Robert Picardo appearance as the non aging EMH seems feasible now.

 

Viacom/CBS doesn’t have Disney money, though.

 

I want to see what happened to him too. I either missed this episode or completely forgot about it until I rewatched VOY a few years ago. It was the only thing I really wanted to see followed up on from that series. I don't see why he would need to be tied to Voyager J though.

 

The Doc went back in time and rescued the liquid Voyager crew from "Course: Oblivion" and brought them back to his present. They went on many adventures throughout the cosmos, retracing the route taken by the original Voyager centuries earlier.
But that's ... another story.

 

It's feasible, but why make them spend that kind of money? Just bring back Bob Picardo and say that the Doc decided to age himself a bit.

 

Joe Kenneth Schweitzer, but his friends call him "Shmullus".

 

Can Star Trek not use that horrible CGI person method please? It's not even a bit convincing and the technology would not work for a long-running series since even in that episode they had to move the camera away from the character's mouth when they spoke because of just how limited that technology.

And that's ignoring the more moral and philosophical reasons.

 

What if the original EMH was on a ship destroyed by the Burn, and his mobile emitter was salvaged from the debris field by the Emerald Chain and auctioned off? Whereupon he becomes conscripted to fix mercenaries and treat warlords for std's until he escapes...

 

I think it's delusional to suggest that the CGI method they did for young version of Mark Hamill as Luke was immoral and unethical. Was Starfleet/Data unethical for using the accurate appearance of Stephen Hawkins on a holodeck? And why that talk about Hamill's mouth. Technology will get better. We as a society are just unnerved about it. Like with many other things when they were new, we will get over it and it becomes normalized as there would be some kind of guidelines, etc.

 

if they set up a romance arc for The Doctor and Zora.

 

YES! I'd prefer the Backup Doctor at keast get a mention, with this being the exact century he existed in, and him specifically searching for the Federation. But the original Doctor could still possibly be around too.

I don't understand why you think he's the only character who can return, though. Isn't Odo pretty much immortal? And Vic Fontaine? Soji and the other Soong androids? Dax could also pop up as a symbiont retired in the Pools of Mak'ala. Any one of the Q could drop by regardless of having "died," because they're outside the spacetime Continuum. And what's the limit on Guinan's lifespan?

 

A lot of those characters being played by actors who have since died probably wacks them down most fan wishlists by quite a bit.

Foe example, I love Odo but personally have no desire to see him if he's played by a new actor.

 

The Doctor can make himself look any age he wants. He got tired of looking like he was in his 40s, so now he looks like he's in his 60s. "I want look more distinguished. If I do say so myself, I think I age like fine wine."

 

Sure.